The Summerland

A once-in-a career case: half a mil in cash and a stolen car … five murdered women, shot execution style and left in a distinct, unnerving arrangement. Sheriff Bill Ashton must put it all together or watch it all fall apart—including his career. Air Force Captain Arden Jones won’t let anything stand in the way of finding her sister—not even Ashton, who just might be her perfect match. More

Sheriff Bill Ashton's life is good, quiet, until the bodies of five women are discovered in the remote foothills and all hell breaks loose. Then another woman disappears, leaving her estranged sister's stolen car and half a million in cash behind as their only clues.

Air Force Captain Arden Jones hasn't spoken to her sister in years, but Samantha's disappearance galvanizes her, sending her to small-town America in search of the black sheep of the family.

Thrown together by circumstance, Bill and Arden explore Samantha's disappearance and her probable connection to the murdered women. Neither expects, nor welcomes, the attraction that surges between them, or the fact that setting aside long-held beliefs may be the only way to stop a madman bent on creating the perfect woman, the one true goddess central to the Wiccan religion, Diana.

I’m a great believer in Fate. Yeah, with a capital “F”. And I write in those terms. Why? Probably because my beloved husband said he fell in love with me the first time he saw me. You might ask if it was a two-way gig… In a word, uh-uh. Not that he wasn’t fine to the extreme, but I wasn’t looking for forever, but rather a fun vacation experience. Yeah, so now we’ve muddled our way through over twenty years of marriage, and I have to admit to his superior intuition on that one!!So if you’re looking for Alpha heroes who just happen to “know” their life-mate when they see them, don’t be overly surprised.I write paranormal romance as TL Schaefer and erotic romance as Keira Ramsay. Why the split personality? Because I started out as TL Schaefer, and didn’t want to confuse the heck out of the folks who loved that stuff when I went to the “dark side”.If you like your heroes in uniform (be they cops, firefighters, or military) and your heroines with a bit of quirk, then wing by my website (www.tlschaefer.com) and check out an excerpt or two to whet your whistle!You can connect with me on Twitter, via Facebook, or heck, the old-fashioned way at terrischaefer@yahoo.com!

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Reviews

Review by:
hrhsophia
on Oct. 10, 2012 :
Good book. Very well written with plenty of twists.(review of free book)

Review by:
Tj McKinnon
on Oct. 03, 2012 :
This was an excellent read. I can normally pick the identity of the killer from the start but this book was a pleasant surprise, with twists and turns I never saw coming. Altogether it was an extremely well written story.(review of free book)

Review by:
Yenny D.
on May 07, 2012 :
Very, very well written. Grammar and editing are excellent, which I completely appreciate!

The plotline is very well written, with unexpected twists and turns. The secondary characters are well developed as well as the hero and heroine. The main couple are not without their flaws, but very realistically, they struggle to work through them in order to be together.

The only thing I would complain about is that the ending seemed a bit unresolved and it seemed to wrap up a bit too neatly for me. Otherwise, I do highly recommend this story! It reminds me of J.D. Robb's work, one of my favorite authors (and yes, I know J.D. Robb is Nora Roberts)(review of free book)